Another very cool feature I forgot about was that when developing the browser application on the device it would not actually have any browser bits on the devic

Another very cool feature I forgot about was that when developing the browser application on the device it would not actually have any browser bits on the device, but just have the environment variable CHROME_URL set to my desktop where I had a webserver serving up my browser files. This let me very rapidly develop the html/css/javascript code without having to transfer my "mobile app" to the device. Reducing the edit/"compile"/see cycle was a big win.